14th again, but better
Back in May, we wondered what Daniel Farke's ambitious talk was all about. Now we know, and his new project begins in the same place: 14th, but better.
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Ambition, and how it is paid for
Daniel Farke has made some very reasonable, fan-friendly requests and pegged them to 49ers Enterprises' ambition. Any failure to agree now will be interpreted as the owners' ambition falling short of the manager's — and the fans'.
Making no mistakes
A lot of us spent the 2010s pleading with Leeds United to even vaguely gesture towards being normal, and now here they are at last: officially not a laughing stock.
One game one point no problem
The sense of Leeds United is that the club does know what it's doing, and it has been winning this game with itself from the start. Winning is easier when you're winning, and when draws are helping you win and defeats aren't hurting you, you're winning all the time.
Daniel Farke, emotions, and the way promotion was won
Leeds fans are, as Farke says, emotional. It doesn't matter how it makes the manager feel, as Howard Wilkinson once said, but it mattered that the team saw their manager using fans' emotions as fuel for his own calm. Since Chris Wilder called his club's fans a 'disgrace', Leeds have won every game.
Tuftyball, or Leeds United adapting to the realities
The tension of watching Daniel Farke's Leeds was summed up in these moments against Sunderland, football that pushes you to the brink of frustration then seesaws suddenly into giving you what you want.
What is Daniel Farke up against this season?
A lot has to be right about your team for winning 2-0 to feel like a letdown. Like it or not, fairly or not, 2024/25 is demanding more of Leeds United.
Failure is inevitable when no one is allowed to fail
Marcelo Bielsa says football is getting worse because of the pressure and the scrutiny and the blame and the accusations. Or to put it another way, Lee Dixon's commentary.
Proposal: abolish football managers
The death of football is relentlessly demanding that the manager is held 'accountable' when organised chaos does not deliver perfection.
Going out of style
This is not to start arguments about one style being better than another, or one manager being better than another. But what people are finding to be faults in Daniel Farke's football would have solved many of the problems people had with Marcelo Bielsa's.